Title and Research Program Affiliation: Deputy Director, Information Sciences Division

Research Interests: Clinical Trial data collection systems.
Bill is also a frequent contributor to the New York Times op-ed page and the author of the critically-acclaimed books, "The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden" and "52 Loaves: One Man's Relentless Pursuit of Truth, Meaning, and a Perfect Crust."

Academic Degrees:
Dipl.-Inf.-Med.

Primary Discipline: Medical Informatics

Title and Research Program Affiliation: Database Administator, Information Sciences Division

Academic Degrees:
BS (EE), MS (EE), Ph.D. (Applied Physics)

Primary Discipline: Medical Physics

Title and Research Program Affiliation: Research Scientist, Center for Advanced Brain Imaging

Title and Research Program Affiliation: Research Scientist, Emotional Brain Institute, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research; Research Assistant Professor, Center for Neural Science, New York University

Research Interests: The overexpression of important trafficking and regulatory proteins of the neuronal endosomal/lysosomal system; the relationship between endosomal proteolysis of APP and presenilin function; developing and perfecting monoclonal antibodies and related assays that will allow us to detect metabolites of APP.

Academic Degrees:
PhD

Primary Discipline: Economics

Title and Research Program Affiliation: Research Scientist, Epidemiology and Health Service Research

Title and Research Program Affiliation: Director, Center for Neurochemistry

Research Interests: The blood-brain barrier; Cerebral transport systems; Protein synthesis and breakdown in brain; Cerebral proteinases and peptidases; Modulation of neuroreceptors by drugs such as nicotine, caffeine, cocaine, and alcohol.

Academic Degrees:
BS, MS, PhD

Primary Discipline: Biostatistics

Title and Research Program Affiliation: Director, Statistical Sciences

Research Interests: Metabolic effects of antipsychotic medications in youth, Development of psychosis in youth, ADHD

Academic Degrees:
PhD Psychology

Primary Discipline: Neuropsychology

Title and Research Program Affiliation: Research Scientist

Research Interests: Cognitive Aging

Academic Degrees:
BS, Business Administration

Title and Research Program Affiliation: Business Officer, Administration

Academic Degrees:
Ph.D.

Primary Discipline: Cognitive Neuroscience

Title and Research Program Affiliation: Research Scientist V
Schizophrenia Research Division

Academic Degrees:
Ph.D.

Primary Discipline: Cell Biology/Neuropathology

Title and Research Program Affiliation: Center for Dementia Research

Research Interests: The role of the endosomal-lysosomal system in neurodegeneration, specifically the dysfunction of the neuronal endosomal-lysosomal system seen in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and possible synergism between these AD changes and aging-related lysosomal changes and the development of neuropathology.

Title and Research Program Affiliation: Research Scientist, Center for Advanced Brain Imaging

Research Interests: Mechanisms of Addiction, treatment of and recovery from drug dependence, early radiologic detection of Alzheimer's disease, mechanisms and biomarkers of Schizophrenia, diffusion tensor and volumetric MRI, functional brain mapping.

Academic Degrees:
PhD, MD

Primary Discipline: Psychiatry, Cell Biology

Title and Research Program Affiliation: Vice Chairman of Research, Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine;
Director of Research and the Center for Dementia Research, Nathan Kline Institute

Title and Research Program Affiliation: Research Scientist VII, Emotional Brain Institute; Research Professor, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine and Neural Science, NYU; Professor, Graduate Program in Cognitive Neuroscience, CUNY

Research Interests: My lab and I are interested in how the mammalian brain processes and remembers information. As a model system we focus on discrimination and memory for odors in rodents. Using electrophysiological, behavioral, neuroanatomical and pharmacological approaches, we explore the neurobiology of memory and the role of experience in sensory system function. The underlying hypothesis of much of our work is that memory plays a critical role in even basic sensory discrimination. In addition, we are interested in how experience early in life can influence sensory system functional development. For example, we are interested in how disruptions of even very simple neural mechanisms during early development can lead to a cascade of long-lasting consequences for brain and behavior.

Title and Research Program Affiliation: Research Scientist 5, Center for Dementia Research

Research Interests: The abnormal aggregation of proteins in neurodegenerative diseases; protein interactions, such as presenilin-binding proteins and the interactions between amyloid-beta peptide and apolipoprotein E, in Alzheimer’s disease; and the role of estrogen in the prevention of Alzheimer’s disease.

Title and Research Program Affiliation: Research Scientist, Analytical Psychopharmacology

Research Interests: Role of the endocannabinoid system in the neurobilogy of drug addiction, depression and suicide.

Academic Degrees:
M.D., Ph.D.

Primary Discipline: Neuroscience

Title and Research Program Affiliation: Center for Dementia Research

Research Interests: Molecular basis of axonal transport and transport defect for neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS and
Alzheimers, especially neurofilament aggregation and genetic dissection of neurofilament transport in vivo